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Marc Giró: "Your aunt from Cuenca is also a very smart aunt, people are not stupid"

2023-02-18T21:36:32.401Z


The journalist dynamites the codes of television 'late night' from within with 'LateXou', his new program on the Catalan disconnection of TVE


Marc Giró (Barcelona, ​​48 years old) believes that his thing about always wearing a suit is cultural appropriation.

“I am a kind of transvestite.

They didn't touch me because of social class or the type of work I did when I started wearing them, but here I am, installed in this uniform and very happy," he says, while boasting about how functional the inside pockets of the Acne Studios jacket are. What did you see during the interview?

“Look, she is years old and they have readapted her several times, but she is still like new.

Before it was invented, I was already a master of

upcycling

[recycling]”, he says with satisfaction.

A few months ago, answering "Who is Marc Giró?"

It was an SEO objective for non-Catalans when it stood out in the gatherings that followed the Telecinco documentary series on the life of Rocío Carrasco.

In 2023, he has become the conductor who has most modernized and dynamited from within the most traditional artefacts of the Catalan-language media.

After revealing the substrate of the posh Catalans in two essays

(

Pijos

and

Encara més pijos

, both published in Univers), he directs and presents

Vostè Primer

, a daily magazine during the week on the Rac-1 radio station and, in case he lacked time, he has just made his debut as a

late night

host with

LateXou

.

An acid humor program on the Catalan territorial disconnection from TVE in which, "inspired by Rosa Maria Sardà, Guillermina Motta and Joan Collins from

Dinastía

", he draws on vindictive monologues and eloquent interviews to better cope with the downturn that invades us on Sundays for the night.

Ask.

Now that everyone wants to work less, he decides to host and host yet another show.

Doesn't so much work overwhelm you?

Answer.

What people want is to work better, right?

I am privileged to be able to do interesting work from privileged platforms.

Working so much is by inheritance.

There is an ancestral wisdom that comes to my family from before Christ: the fear of poverty and shortages.

So I need it.

I also think that this question would not be asked of a doctor or traumatologist if they had three patients left to attend to.

Q.

Is that because you also understand yours as a public service?

A.

No, just that sometimes there is a feeling that we cannot choose and say no to a job or not to do something.

Q.

And have you done it, say no?

A.

Yes, quite a bit.

I could make you a list.

To things that I don't know how to do or things that were very well paid.

I think I have said more no than yes in terms of work.

Q.

And why did you say yes to a

late night

?

R.

Because Santi Villas offered it to me, who is also my husband.

He worked in Madrid, presented this project and they bought it with the worm inside, which was me.

"I can't afford to disconnect from myself. I work from the nerve," says Marc Giró.Gianluca Battista

Q.

What interests you about the format?

R.

That it is a classic program and that always ends up working because it has been on television for four million years.

It has its own ritual that must be respected and that is a great exercise.

Q.

But within that formal structure, you transgress.

In his monologues, he advocates free and free abortion and staunchly defends radical feminism.

R.

Honestly, I don't think I'm transgressing anything.

What I want is to fit in.

About the issues, well the truth is that what you are asking me seems strange to me.

What surprises me is that more is not done.

If they pay you to portray reality, it's the right thing to do, right?

Q.

A monologue like yours in which you say that “straight people are late” is not the same as, for example, listening to Toni Cantó's message on his

late night

.

R.

I have not seen that man's program, but I can assure you that my set is the one that is best illuminated.

We know where to put the spotlights.

And although I love the baroque or the Romanesque, that is not what you can offer to the respectable in 2023. I have a lot of respect for people.

You can't give people a pig for a poke.

People are smart.

Q.

That contradicts what they always told us in the newsrooms: "Even my aunt in Cuenca has to understand this."

R.

Well here I go, your aunt from Cuenca is also a very smart aunt, people are not stupid.

He turned, with Cristina Rosenvinge at one point in his program, 'LateXou' JOSEP ECHABURU

Q.

In the last program you joked about the controversial dismissal of Manel Vidal, a collaborator of TV3's

Zona Franca

late night

, and pretended that you were firing one of your scriptwriters live.

Do you have any limits that he doesn't want to deal with on his show?

R.

The limits is a false debate.

A limit is the time that the program lasts or the characters that an article has.

In art it is fundamental to go too far or not, or to contract again.

Look, excuse me, it may sound pretentious, but I believe that the guide to follow, not limits, is the Charter of Human Rights.

One has to be attentive, constantly reviewing what rights we have acquired and what we want to keep.

Q.

And have you decided if you would not touch on a specific topic?

R.

Actually, what surprises me is the large amount of space that is being given to opinion-makers, women and men, to whom they give up space in their newspaper, and other newspapers as well, against the trans

law

.

I don't understand how they can treat him like this.

Q.

In what sense?

A.

As soon as a trans person explains to you what their business is about, you understand the subject perfectly.

Less focus should be placed on what they call gender ideology, which by the way we don't know what the hell it is —and never better said— and focus more on the fascist ideology that surrounds us.

With this subject there is no possible equidistance.

Marc Giró, on his set of 'LateXou'.JOSEP ECHABURU

Q.

Now he flies alone, but recently he denounced that on TV they always put a co-host accompanying him to slow down his character a bit.

A.

That's because of the feather, which is always suspicious.

To me, for example, they say: "You speak very fast."

What I think they mean is: "Don't talk so much, we are controlling you."

Now a very curious thing happens with the women who broadcast sporting events.

People are bothered by a woman broadcasting a Barça goal.

Q.

Why do you think it happens?

R.

Because we are less used to it.

In the program I have the Glorias Cabareteras, who are two ladies talking together at the same time and in a hasty way, in a wild way.

It is a matter of learning and letting yourself be surprised.

It also cost cubism or modernism to assimilate and look now.

Q.

Las Glorias Cabareteras use inclusive language in the program.

R.

This, first of all, is a matter of respect for someone who tells you: "Look, I would like you to speak to me in masculine, feminine, neuter, I don't know how many or whatever."

It is a matter of humanity, of being in tune with nature and with that of taking better care of each other.

And then, of course, you can do humor because it's a fucking mess, what if the

tuti

, what if the

totis

.

But, although it may seem very funny, the people who need that social change, really need it.

I, who have been a queer, is very nice when, although it seems from the 19th century speaking like that, one is able to put words, to express yourself from your own nature and from your own identity, or whatever they want to call it now.

But to be able to do it from the tranquility.

After all, it's great to have people at peace.

He turned and the Glorias Cabareteras (behind him), in the elevator in which all the guests of his program get on, like Santi Millán (on the left of the image). JOSEP ECHABURU

Q.

It has gone through women's magazines, on the radio and on TV, where do you suffer more?

R.

Look, only the fallen angels of the women's magazine, those of us who have passed and left them, can say one thing that we are going to say with all the letters, because that's good.

You have to apologize to women on your knees.

And I have done it on my set.

Q.

Where do you think there are more posh undercover?

R.

I always believed that it had to do with the money that one has.

And if you have inherited it from your family, that it did not cost you anything to earn it, then congratulations from here because you are a posh topped.

But I have also reflected a lot on it and I believe that any person who holds some kind of privilege, not only the wealth of the pijerío, but also their casuistries, is.

Q.

As who?

R.

Those who believed they were first-class citizens.

Those who knew about history and had even gone through a revolution.

But then you realize that this person has an employee at home —who are usually, by the way, migrant women or “brown women”, as Rocío Quillahuaman has labeled them— and it turns out that this woman is not insured.

One thing that, by the way, the law provides to eradicate thanks to this coalition government.

So there's no use reading you a New Anagram Notebook, going to see an exhibition and then having a drink.

That, to you, does not make you a better citizen.

Q.

What do you do to disconnect from yourself?

R.

I never disconnect.

I am a person who has always been anxious and I work with the nerve.

I can't afford it.

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